Francis Brown “I” had four known daughters and two known sons: Sarah (married Thomas Munday), Elizabeth (married Robert Mills), Rebecca (married John Mills, Junior), Mary (her husband, if any, is not known), Francis “II” (married Elizabeth Allen) and Daniel “I” (married Jane Copeland). Francis Brown “II” and Elizabeth Allen had sons of their own who were named Francis Brown “IV” (APPARENTLY never married or fathered any children) and Daniel Brown “II” (married Elizabeth Coleman). Daniel Brown “II” and Elizabeth Coleman left Essex Co., VA and moved to Spotsylvania Co., VA around 1723. That was the part of Spotsylvania that became Orange Co., VA in 1734….and then the area where they lived became part of Culpeper Co., VA in 1748/1749. Daniel “II” and Elizabeth (Coleman) Brown reared a large family in the Culpeper Co., VA area. Their male and female children and grandchildren married into various families in Virginia, and those surnames included Stubblefield, Covington, Neville, Nall/Nalle, Doggett, Powell, Vaughan, Dickerson, Davenport, Lewis and Farguson.
The above-mentioned brother of Francis Brown “II” named Daniel Brown “I” remained in Essex Co., VA, and he and his wife Jane Copeland had four known daughters and three known sons. The three sons were: Abraham Brown (married Mary Tribble), Henry Brown “I” (married Keziah Jones) and Francis Brown “III” (married Katarin Unknown). The male and female children and grandchildren of Daniel Brown “I” and Jane Copeland married into various families in Virginia, and those surnames included Rutherford, Boughan, Brooke, Bagwell, Edmondson, Croxton, Lewis and Caston. Abraham Brown and Mary Tribble moved to the same area in Spotsylvania/Orange/Culpeper Co., VA in 1723 as did Abraham’s relative Daniel Brown “II,” but Abraham later moved again to Caroline Co., VA, where he died around 1735. The “Abraham Brown branch” APPEARS to have been the only “branch” of this overall family that moved to Caroline Co., VA. Abraham and Mary (Tribble) Brown had at least two sons (Daniel and John), and their son named John Brown married his cousin Elizabeth Brown of Orange/Culpeper Co., VA. That Elizabeth Brown was a daughter of Daniel Brown “II” and Elizabeth Coleman. There is at least one male Brown DNA donor in “Group 10” who almost certainly “traces back” to this John and Elizabeth (Brown) Brown.
Since “Brown” is such a common surname, it should not be surprising that there were at least four UNRELATED Brown families in Culpeper Co., VA in the late-1700s. These families included DNA “Group 10,” “Group 33,” “Group 47” and “Group 55.” There was even a John Brown in “Group 47” who married a Phoebe Brown in “Group 10” (and there is a male Brown DNA donor in the Brown Genealogy Society DNA testing project who is a descendant of that “Group 47”/”Group 10” Brown couple). Recently discovered information shows that an apparent member of “Group 33” married into what appears to be part of the same overall Coleman family as the Elizabeth Coleman who married Daniel Brown “II” of “Group 10.” Each of these two unrelated Brown families had one or more men who were named Coleman Brown. As such, one has to be very careful to keep these two families properly “defined and segregated” when attempting to determine the correct “family trees.”
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/MDCHARLE/2011-08/1313863356
